What does cortejo in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word cortejo in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use cortejo in Spanish.

The word cortejo in Spanish means courtship, wooing, mating, retinue, entourage, court, woo, curry favor with, funeral procession, funeral cortège. To learn more, please see the details below.

Listen to pronunciation

Meaning of the word cortejo

courtship, wooing

nombre masculino (galanteo, conquista)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Es muy bueno en el cortejo y todas las chicas se enamoran de él.
He knows all about courting and all the girls fall in love with him.

mating

nombre masculino (galanteo, animales) (animal)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
El pavo real abre su cola en el cortejo para atraer a la hembra.
The peacock opens up its tail for mating to attract a female.

retinue, entourage

nombre masculino (personas que acompañan)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
El cortejo del rey estaba compuesto por más de veinte personas.
The King's entourage was made up of more than twenty people.

court, woo

verbo transitivo (seducir, enamorar)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
El príncipe cortejó a la princesa extranjera durante varios años antes de casarse.
The prince courted (or: wooed) the foreign princess for years before getting married.

curry favor with

verbo transitivo (figurado (tratar de convencer)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
El gobierno está cortejando a los partidos minoritarios para que apoyen su ley.
The government is currying favor with minority parties to get them to support their law.

funeral procession, funeral cortège

locución nominal masculina (asistentes a un funeral)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
El cortejo fúnebre acompañó al fallecido a su última morada.
The funeral procession accompanied the deceased to his final resting place.

Let's learn Spanish

So now that you know more about the meaning of cortejo in Spanish, you can learn how to use them through selected examples and how to read them. And remember to learn the related words that we suggest. Our website is constantly updating with new words and new examples so you can look up the meanings of other words you don't know in Spanish.

Do you know about Spanish

Spanish (español), also known as Castilla, is a language of the Iberian-Romance group of the Romance languages, and the 4th most common language in the world according to Some sources, while others list it as a 2nd or 3rd most common language. It is the mother tongue of about 352 million people, and is spoken by 417 million people when adding its speakers as a language. sub (estimated in 1999). Spanish and Portuguese have very similar grammar and vocabulary; The number of similar vocabulary of these two languages is up to 89%. Spanish is the primary language of 20 countries around the world. It is estimated that the total number of speakers of Spanish is between 470 and 500 million, making it the second most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.